JUROR FOWLER INCREASES HILLSVILLE ROLL OF DEAD

Little Progress Has Been Made Toward Capture of Allen Gang and Their Clansmen.

STORY OF KILLING OF SIDNA'S WIFE ERRONEOUS

Detectives Who Went to Home of Outlaw Found It Deserted--Floyd Allen, Son Victor and Byrd Marion Taken to Pulaski Jail for Fear Friends Might Attempt Rescue And May be Sent to Roanoke

MANY CONFLICTING REPORTS AS TO WHEREABOUTS OF OUTLAWS

Hillsville, Va., March 16 -- With juror Augustus Fowler added to the roll of dead, bringing the total up to five, little or no progress had been made tonight looking to the capture of the Allens and their clansmen who escaped to the mountains after their murderous attack on the officials of the Carroll county court. Reports which came in from the mountains last night that Sidna Allen had been captured, and that his wife had been killed, proved erroneous today. Detectives went to the Allen home and found it was deserted.

Floyd Allen, left wounded after the court room fight, Victor Allen and Byrd Marion, all charged with murder in the first degree, were spirited out of town this afternoon and are now on their way to Pulaski, with a possibility that they may be taken still further away, to Roanoke, for safekeeping. Ten detectives went along to guard the prisoners.

There have been fears from the first that an attempt would be made to rescue Floyd Allen and a heavy guard has been kept over him. Now that he is safely out of the way the detectives will give themselves over to the hunt for the missing members of the clan. Cabell Strickland, held as a witness, and John F. Moore, charged with aiding the Allens to escape, are still in jail. Order has been completely restored and the town has been quiet throughout the day, save for many conflicting reports that have come in from the mountains as to the whereabouts of the outlaws. Since yesterday all manner of rumors have been afloat and the meagreness of the means of communication has made it difficult to separate the true from the false.

Respect for and confidence in the processes of the law have replaced the panicky demoralization following the tragedy. The grand jury, summoned by Judge Walter R. Staples, met today and quickly returned indictments against the following:

Floyd Allen Victor Allen and Claude Allen, his sons, Sidna Allen, Friel Allen, Wesley Edwards and Sidney Edwards, nephews of Floyd Allen, Byrd Marion All of the indictments charge murder. John F. Moore was indicted for felony, the charge being that he assisted the Allens to Escape. After the grand jury reported Judge Staples adjourned court until March 26.

Addressing the grand jury in Hillsville this morning, Judge Staples said, "Act in fear of God and nobody else."

Dexter Goad, clerk of the court, who was wounded in the face by one of the outlaws, was the first witness.

Four of the Allens, Sidna, Jack and Claude, are at large, hiding in the mountains and prepared to resist to the bitter end.

Sixty detectives and deputies have the situation well in hand. Militia is not needed and probably will not be called for.

The funeral services of Sheriff Lewis F. Webb and Commonwealth's Attorney W. M. Foster, who were among those killed in Thursday's battle, took place today, being conducted by their pastors in the presence of a large assemblage of relatives and friends. The services were in the Hillsville church, which was crowded to the doors with men and women anxious to pay a last tribute of affection and esteem to the memories of their brave officers.

The interment was in the Hillsville cemetery. Upon the tomb of each was placed a wreath of beautiful flowers. The graves are on an eminence overlooking Carroll's rugged hills, at a point where the winds and sunlight can touch them freely and where the outlook over the country is uninterrupted. To the hundreds of people attending the services the spot for the burial seemed most appropriate. Its imposing grandeur being in keeping with the splendid record of those who were dead.

It develops that Floyd Allen's wounds are not serious. He is much better today and probably will recover in a short time. It begins to look as if his effort to end his life was a pitiful burlesque. He wants to live as much as anybody and slashed at his throat in the same spirit, of cowardly bravado that led him to slay helpless men.

Exactly how many men are in the gang of fugitives is not known. Reports on this point vary some placing it at four or five and some as high as twenty. It is certain that the gang includes Sidna, Jack and Claude Allen and Wesley and Sidney Edwards, the latter being cousins of the Allens. These five men, it is believed, are prepared to die before submitting to arrest. It is thought by many that the men are hiding in some remote mountain wilderness across the North Carolina border. A majority of people, however, are convinced that they are not far from their homes and are waiting in a lofty inaccessible place for the approach of the officers.

Clash Expected Soon

Roanoke, Va., March 16, --The prisoners from Hillsville are not expected here before 3 o'clock Sunday morning. The detectives left at Hillsville have gone to the mountains, headed by Lee Felts. Indications are that they will clash with the Allen's tonight or early in the morning. Two letters were found in Judge Massie's coat pocket threatening him with death if he should sentence Allen on being found guilty. The authorities refused to make the text of the letters public. They are believed to have been written by the Allens.

Train Reaches Roanoke

Train No. 43 carrying Floyd Allen, his son Victor and his cousin Byrd Marion, who were guarded by a number of officers, arrived in Roanoke this morning about 3:30 o'clock. Floyd Allen has two wounds, one, a shattered knee, being caused by a steel bullet, which prevented him from going to the mountains with the remainder of the Allen faction, and the other, a light abdominal wound, while he also has a slashed throat, which wound was self-inflicted.

NEW YORK NEWSPAPER MEN RUSHED TO HILLSVILLE

Wisdom of Governor Mann in Putting Tom Felts at Head of Posse Chasing Outlaws Proven.

New York newspaper correspondents have rushed to Hillsville with cameras and are said to have complete control of the news sources at the county seat of Carroll county. Telephone communication with the town is almost impossible, the Associated Press reports being the best obtainable. Many stories of the Allens are told here. At least a hundred or more people in this section are intimately acquainted with the clan and all are unanimous in agreeing that they are a rough set. It appears to be the unanimous opinion that the state militia would be powerless before the forces which could be brought to bear against them in the mountains. The wisdom of Governor Mann in placing T. L. Felts, of Bluefield, at the head of the posses that is searching the mountains for the desperadoes was proven Friday when reports came from Hillsville, saying that several of the outlaws had been captured. The personnel of the men who accompanied Mr. Felts and who later went to reinforce them makes the ultimate capture of the Allens and their friends almost certain, although it may take weeks to accomplish this. Every man in the crow knows the mountaineers and their habits and can adapt himself to any situation which may arise. The men were all picked for their ability to shoot and their courage as well as their knowledge of the mountains and they will undoubtedly make a showing which several companies of regular army troops could not equal.

They are physically capable of lying out for nights in the hope of catching some member of the clan visiting some supply point, and because of the weather conditions it is certain they will have to search for food, as it is natural for fugitives like these to have supply points, and the Felts posse will at all times be prepared to stave off any movement. Hundreds of stories of how the Felts organization has effected captures after days of patient waiting in the woods, with a food and water supply in the pockets of the men, have been related. Occasions when two and three weeks were silently passed in waiting until nature finally forced a return to the homes of friends have been told and undoubtedly will be repeated in the case of the Allens for these men lived in good homes and under good conditions, being men of wealth and accustomed to certain comforts.

Some years ago Felts officers captured Bad Bill Lee in the mountains of Russell county. They lay in wait for him for days and nights. It was confidently believed that he would return some night or day for food and there was nothing to do but wait. Hidden in a cave a Felts man huddled himself underneath the rocks and through rain and snow he waited for the hour when the big bad man, who had shot Tom Felts, would return to his home. Finally one night he did return and he entered the Lee home before the officer could get him. Drawing nearer to the house the officer waited for the man to come out and after long hours of waiting he finally ventured forth about day break and after a touching scene at the door with his wife he started away for the mountains in which he might have hidden for weeks as he had made arrangements for food. When he stepped away from the house and had left his wife the officer threw a gun on him and he surrendered because he saw there was no hope of escaping then, but here was a hope of escaping later and he did bring that chance about.

This is the method which will finally have to be adopted in securing the Allens. They will have to be starved out and it takes men as rugged physically and as cunning mentally, as they are to catch.

The governor has provided a means by which they shall be indicted and tried, but it would be far more preferable to take them to Richmond as fast as they are captured and by legal procedure move the trials to that city.

ALLENS MAY TAKE REFUGE IN A GORGE

Cave Back of Floyd's House as Impregnable as Are the Breaks of Sandy.

WILL NEVER BE TAKEN ALIVE, RELATIVE SAYS

Story of Events Leading Up to Tragic Shooting Detailed to Daily Tele- Graph by Man Who Had Talked With Eye Witness.

INCEPTION OF THE TROUBLE DATES BACK DOZEN YEARS

The story of the events leading up to the tragic shooting of the court officials at Hillsville was told to a Daily Telegraph representative here last night. Another gentleman, who was within a few miles of Hillsville, and who talked to a man who was in the court room at the time of the shooting, also related the story of the sensational affair in the manner in which it was told to him. The two stories mark an epoch in the political, social, feud and legal history of Carroll county.

Four days before the jury was prepared to render its verdict in the Allen case everyone knew there would be trouble if Floyd Allen was found guilty. It was well known that cartridges had been shipped in and it was known that the Allens were there prepared to take every step necessary to prevent Floyd Allen from going to jail. Everyone connected with the court knew what was going to happen when the foreman read the verdict of the jury, and before Judge Massie was given a chance to say a word Floyd Allen spoke out in court and plainly said to the judge: "If you pass sentence on me, I'll kill you."

No precautions were taken to disarm the prisoner, or his friends, who crowded the courtroom, armed with rifles and revolvers, but Judge Massie, knowing what would happen, for he and everyone else in the courtroom knew the Allens keep their word and tell the truth, stood up and commenced to sentence the man to one year in the state prison at hard labor. Hardly had the first sound of the last word left the judge's lips when a shot rang out and Judge Massie fell forward. Floyd Allen, who fired the shot, then turned his gun on W. M. Foster, prosecuting attorney, and he, too, fell dead. Floyd then dropped his gun and started to run from the courtroom. Sheriff Webb, who was rushing towards him, had just placed his hand on Allen to restrain him when some one, either an Edwards or an Allen, fired a shot at Webb, and he plunged forward, grasping Floyd Allen in a death like grip. Then commenced a fusillade, which has no equal in the criminal annals of America. How many shots were fired can never be told, but shot after shot rang out, sometimes the reports ringing so close together that it sounded as though a rapid fire gun was being emptied into the room. Screams and shrieks rang out on all sides, the shrill, piercing screams of the women, mingling with the rough demand of the Allens and the frightened yells of the mad mob which was trying to force it way out of the windows and doors. Any way to get out was the slogan and men trampled over one another, while some, angered because they could not reach safety first, pulled guns and commenced to belabor each other over the heads. For a few minutes pandemonium reigned and only the Edwards and Allens were cool and working with the deathly purpose of getting the rest of the court and wiping out a grudge that had its inception about ten or twelve years ago.

Shortly after the Allen's left the court room they went to the home of Frank Wilcox, where the telephone exchange is located, and walking up to the switchboard they fired round after round of shot into the switchboard, and with fiendish glee demolished the instrument, so as to make it impossible for aid to be summoned.

Reports after the shooting claimed that the Allens jumped on horseback and rode out of town, firing their guns into the air. They did nothing of the kind. It appears from the report carried by an eyewitness of the tragedy that the men rode about the town for fully five hours and did not leave the town until after 2 o'clock, when they left and carried with them information of the plans being made to effect their capture. Possessed of every whit of knowledge regarding the actions of Governor Mann and the Felts posse that was being organized the men started for the hills and will remain there until the last man is killed.

Henry Allen, a relative of the Allens who did the shooting, and who is an officer at Byllesby heard of the shooting shortly after it occurred. He told a travelling man who arrived here yesterday that the Allens will not be taken until death carries them out of the reach of the law. Henry Allen ridiculed the idea of there being but fifteen or twenty who will have to be reckoned with by the officers. There will be fifty or more, said he, and the number will increase if the Allens show any ability to escape the officers for any length of time. Allen said there is a gorge, with sheer rock sides, a hundred or more feet in height, in the rear of Floyd Allen's home, and he believes the Allens and their supporters will retire to this gorge. In a cave at one end of the gorge, which is as impregnable as the Breaks of the Sandy in Kentucky, these men can defy an army and pick off the officers as fast as they appear.

He was asked if it could not be possible to starve the men out of the gorge, but he laughed and said such a thing is foolish to think of because while the officers would be trying to starve them out friends of the Allens could stealthily approach and pick the officers one by one until hey could make no further moves in that direction.

There is a long history to the present case. It dates back at least twelve years to the time when Dexter Goad was United States commissioner. About two years ago Jack Allen's son returned from a Virginia college, at which he had graduated in law. Friends tried to have him nominated as prosecuting attorney, and it is claimed the place was promised to Allen. When the nomination was made it was found Foster had been renominated to the place and then commenced a political feud which spread over the county. The Allen's resented the broken faith and so bitter did both factions become that it became known there would be trouble. The dead sheriff, Lewis Webb, was elected to office on a platform which pledged itself to run down the Allen's and in spite of the pleadings of his wife, who begged him on bended knee not to become a candidate, Mr. Webb did stand for election and was overwhelmingly elected.

About six months ago, a deputy sheriff by the name of Samuels was sworn into office, on his promise that he would get the Allens. Samuels is alleged to have been a North Carolina moonshiner and blockade runner, and was an enemy of the Allens from the moment he took office.

Shortly after he went into office he arrested two Edwards boys for disturbing religious worships and after handcuffing them, started to the county jail at Hillsville with them. On the way to jail he met up with Floyd and Sidna Allen. They asked what the trouble was and were told. Floyd Allen then told him to take the handcuffs off the men and let them go on to jail and he could follow them there. Allen promised they would go to the jail and that he would be there to give bail for them. According to this story, Samuels did release the men and let them go and after the two Allens had done a little blustering Samuels is alleged to have run away and left the Allens. It is claimed that he then went before the grand jury and had Floyd Allen arrested for taking prisoners away from him.

Wild rumors of trouble then commenced to go over the county. On every side threats were heard, and it is said that the story of the Allens was not believed at all, and influence was brought to bear on Judge Massie to show him they were wrong and that they were a desperate lawless act who had no respect for the law, whereas, a man who lived in that section for years and who knows hundreds of men in Carroll county, which place he visits every year, said the Allens had a higher regard for Judge Massie than they did for Judge Jackson, his predecessor.

The story about the shooting of Sidna Allen in a cabin is unbelieved by men who knows the section. Sidna Allen's home was erected at a cost of at least $12,000 and is one of the best, if not the best, houses in Carroll county. Allen himself is worth in the neighborhood of $40,000.